These stories are AMAZING. I cannot wait until everyone else gets to read them.

LSU Professor Randolph Thomas will be playing his all original music at La Divina in Baton Rouge on Thursday, Sept. 7 from 6-8 pm. Randolph is the author of a short story collection, Dispensations, and a collection of poems, The Deepest Rooms. Come out and show your support! 🎶

What a gorgeous, heartbreaking poem from Carolyn Hembree (she/her). This book is a knockout, and I can’t wait for us all to have it in our hands.

So excited to read with my buddies Matty Joel and @jalenjwrites!

Our new Delta Mouth Directors are here and ready to put on that festival! First-year Jalen Jones is our 2023-2024 Delta Mouth Festival Director, and first-year Šari Dale is our Associate Director. Show them some big love, and keep an eye out for upcoming Delta Mouth events!

Can't wait to read this! Erin Little is a phenomenal writer.

Fall 2024 Applications to the LSU MFA in Creative Writing are being accepted now until January 15th! This month, we will be sharing 10 Reasons to Get an MFA at LSU, so stay tuned!

Congrats @AriCisco! This is stunning.

You have less than a week to submit to New Delta Review! Submit your work today!

Let Carolyn Hembree serenade you with her long poem “For Today” on @OfPoetryPodcast’s Episode 42: Of Long Poems, Inger Christensen’s Alphabet, and Writing Disaster. Carolyn’s poetry collection, “For Today,” was published by LSU Press and is available now!

New Orleans, please tune into WWOZ 90.7 FM, the greatest radio station on earth, tomorrow, 1/30, at 6pm, to hear me talking with my friend TR Johnson about my LSU Press poetry collection, For Today. 🔥

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Look what I got in the mail today! Cannot wait to read it. The cover is stunning! 💐 Maurice 💐 LSU Creative Writing

Support Creative Writing Professor @AriCisco at the Free Verse Social Club reading, also featuring Rodrigo Toscano, hosted by Twelfth Night Coffee! Located in the New Orleans, the reading will take place tomorrow, March 20th, at 7pm. We’ll see you there!

Poetry judge Carolyn Hembree (she/her)'s third poetry collection, For Today, was published by LSU Press. She has received numerous grants and awards. She is a professor in the MFA program at University of New Orleans and serves as the poetry editor of Bayou Magazine

Kicking off the 2025 MLA convention Th, 1/ 9, at 7PM, Hilton New Orleans Riverside St. James Ballroom (3rd Floor). I'll be reading w/ UNO poets John Gery, Jericho Brown, Stacey Balkun, Kay Murphy, Jade Hurter, Skye, plus. The event is FREE! mla.confex.com/mla/2025/meeti…

Grateful to Stacey Balkun for selecting my poem "Nocturne" from For Today (LSU Press, 2024) for August of the glorious 2025 UA Poetry Center calendar. Humbled to be among these 11 tremendous poets, esp. New Orleanians Mona Lisa Saloy and andy young.

BIG NEWS! For the first time, Delta Mouth is welcoming a 10th author, and it's Deesha Philyaw! Author of The Secret Lives of Church Ladies, soon to be an HBO Max series, Deesha will join us in Baton Rouge this March. We can't wait!

Congrats to January Gill O'Neil whose GLITTER ROAD won the Poetry by the Sea Book Award! I'm honored that FOR TODAY (LSU Press, 2024) was named the finalist by judge Chelsea Woodard: "FOR TODAY is a singular and deeply moving work."